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Biological Material Transfer Agreement

Samples and Data for Research: Template for Access Policy Development from the National Cancer Research Institute http://www.oncoreuk.org/pages/researchers_data.html

Uniform Biological Material Transfer Agreement Federal Register http://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/resources/tt/docs/ubmta.pdf

Code of Federal Regulations

Government Printing Office Access http://www.gpoaccess.gov/cfr/index.html

Conflict of Interest

Conflict of Interest, NIH Office of Extramural Research http://grants.nih.gov/grants/policy/coi/

Conflict of Interest Information and Resources, NIH< http://www.nih.gov/about/ethics_COI.htm

Electronic Records and Electronic Signatures

Electronic Records; Electronic Signatures
Office of Regulatory Affairs, U.S. Food and Drug Administration http://www.accessdata.fda.gov/scripts/cdrh/cfdocs/cfcfr/CFRSearch.cfm?CFRPart=11&showFR=1

Health Information Portability and Accountability Act of 1996

Health Information Portability and Accountability Act of 1996
HIPAA Security Rule
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services
Department of Health and Human Services
http://www.cms.gov/HIPAAGenInfo/

Medical Privacy–National Standards to Protect the Privacy of Personal Health Information Office for Civil Rights–HIPAA
Office for Civil Rights
Department of Health and Human Services
http://www.hhs.gov/ocr/hipaa/

Human Subjects Regulations

Application for and exemption from IRB approval
Office for Human Research Protections
Department of Health and Human Services
http://www.hhs.gov/ohrp/policy/hsdc95-02.html

Frequently asked questions
Office for Human Research Protections
Department of Health and Human Services
http://answers.hhs.gov/ohrp/

Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act of 2008
http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d110:h.r.00493:
Genetic Nondiscrimination Fact Sheet
http://www.genome.gov/10002328

Guidance on the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act: Implications for Investigators and Institutional Review Boards
http://www.hhs.gov/ohrp/policy/gina.pdf

Guidance on Informed Consent for In Vitro Diagnostic Device Studies Using Leftover Human Specimens That Are Not Individually Identifiable
Food and Drug Administration http://www.fda.gov/MedicalDevices/DeviceRegulationandGuidance/GuidanceDocuments/ucm078384.htm

Guidance on Research Involving Coded Private Information or Biological Specimens
Office for Human Research Protections
Department of Health and Human Services
http://www.hhs.gov/ohrp/policy/cdebiol.html

Human Subjects Policy Guidance
Office for Human Research Protections
Department of Health and Human Services
http://www.hhs.gov/ohrp/policy/index.html#human

Office for Human Research Protections
Department of Health and Human Services
http://www.hhs.gov/ohrp/

Informed Consent Policy Guidance

Issues to Consider in the Research Use of Stored Data or Tissues
Office for Human Research Protections
Department of Health and Human Services
http://www.hhs.gov/ohrp/policy/reposit.html

Office for Human Research Protections
Department of Health and Human Services
http://www.hhs.gov/ohrp/policy/index.html#informed

Policies for responding to requests for discontinuation of participation in research
Office for Human Research Protections
Department of Health and Human Services
http://www.hhs.gov/ohrp/policy/subjectwithdrawal.pdf
http://www.hhs.gov/ohrp/documents/200811guidance.html
http://edocket.access.gpo.gov/2008/pdf/E8-28387.pdf

Informatics Interoperability

caGrid
http://cagrid.org/display/cagridhome/Home

Cancer Data Standards Repository
https://cabig.nci.nih.gov/concepts/caDSR/

Specimen Resource Locator
http://biospecimens.cancer.gov/locator

Informatics System Development

Capability Maturity Model Integration
Carnegie Mellon® Software Engineering Institute
http://www.sei.cmu.edu/cmmi/

Informatics System Security

Risk Management Guide for Information Technology Systems
National Institute of Standards and Technology
http://csrc.nist.gov/publications/nistpubs/800-30/sp800-30.pdf

Laboratory Practices

Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendment
http://wwwn.cdc.gov/clia/regs/toc.aspx
Good Laboratory Practices http://www.oecd.org/document/63/0,2340,en_2649_34381_2346175_1_1_1_1,00.html

International Organization for Standardization (ISO9000)
http://www.iso.org/iso/home.htm

ISBER
http://www.isber.org

U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Quality System Regulation, 21 CFR 820
http://www.accessdata.fda.gov/scripts/cdrh/cfdocs/cfcfr/CFRSearch.cfm?CFRPart=820

National Cancer Institute

Biospecimen Research Network
http://biospecimens.cancer.gov/researchnetwork/

cancer Biomedical Informatics Grid®
https://cabig.nci.nih.gov/

cancer Biomedical Informatics Grid® Enterprise Support Network
http://cabig.nci.nih.gov/esn/

Data Sharing and Intellectual Capital Workspace
http://cabig-ut.nci.nih.gov/working_groups/DSIC_SLWG

National Biospecimen Network Blueprint
http://biospecimens.cancer.gov/archive/resources/reports/nbn.asp

NCI Best Practices Frequently Asked Questions
http://biospecimens.cancer.gov/practices/faq.asp

Office of Biorepositories and Biospecimen Research
http://biospecimens.cancer.gov/

Symposium-Workshop on Custodianship and Ownership Issues in Biospecimen Research
http://biospecimens.cancer.gov/archive/resources/workshop/cow.asp

National Institutes of Health Policies and Guidelines

Certificates of Confidentiality Kiosk
Office of Extramural Research
National Institutes of Health
http://grants2.nih.gov/grants/policy/coc/index.htm

Conflict of Interest
Office of Extramural Research
National Institutes of Health
http://grants.nih.gov/grants/policy/coi/

Guidelines for Research Involving Recombinant DNA Molecules
Office of Biotechnology Activities
National Institutes of Health
http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/notice-files/NOT-OD-02-052.html

NIH Data Sharing Policy
Office of Extramural Research
National Institutes of Health
http://grants.nih.gov/grants/policy/data_sharing/

NIH Research Tools Policy
Sharing Biomedical Research Resources: Principles and Guidelines for Recipients of NIH Research Grants and Contracts
Office of Technology Transfer
National Institutes of Health
http://ott.od.nih.gov/policy/research_tool.html

Other Biospecimen Resource References

Case Studies of Existing Human Tissue Repositories—“Best Practices” for a Biospecimen Resource for the Genomic and Proteomic Era
http://biospecimens.cancer.gov/archive/resources/reports/csehtr.asp
http://www.rand.org/pubs/monographs/MG120/index.html

Handbook of Human Tissue Sources—A National Resource of Human Tissue Samples
http://www.rand.org/pubs/monograph_reports/MR954/

Standardized Systems for Clinical and Pathology Data

American Joint Committee on Cancer TNM Staging
http://www.cancerstaging.org/mission/whatis.html

Cancer Care Ontario Program in Evidence-Based Care
http://www.cancercare.on.ca/cms/One.aspx?portalId=1377&pageId=10151

College of American Pathologists Cancer Protocols and Checklists
http://tinyurl.com/CAPProtocols

International Classification of Diseases
http://www.who.int/classifications/icd/en/

International Classification of Diseases for Oncology
http://www.who.int/classifications/icd/adaptations/oncology/en/index.html

National Comprehensive Cancer Network Guidelines and Clinical Resources
http://www.nccn.org/professionals/physician_gls/f_guidelines.asp

North American Association of Central Cancer Registries Data Standards and Data Dictionary
http://www.naaccr.org/StandardsandRegistryOperations/VolumeII.aspx

Systematized Nomenclature of Medicine—Clinical Terms® (SNOMED CT)
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/research/umls/Snomed/snomed_main.html


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